I decided to start a blog about my adventures as a truck driver in Australia. This is a big country (7.6 million square kilometres with a population of about 21 million, that's about 89 acres each) and I now roam across ...
Welcome to the blog
August 20th, 2009Navel contemplation and other useless detours.
August 18th, 2010My hat is off to the RTA this time... jump into the truck and run down to Port Botany, sounds easy when you say it like that. It was about 5pm when I left with around a five and a half ...
Double Trouble
August 11th, 2010Last week I climbed out of the old 950 Kenny and swapped it for a Cab-over Aerodyne with an extra 40 ponies driving the whole show. Just to make sure I didn't get too carried away we whacked an extra ...
Double Jeopardy
August 10th, 2010At the end of last year I had to take a medical to be able to operate under the rules of 'Basic Fatigue Management', allowing me to drive for 14 hours a day rather than the standard 12. Sound easy ...
Wake up and smell the coffee, decaf can kill you.
July 26th, 2010Last week was a holiday, of sorts. You always end up working too hard when you stay home for the week but at least all those nagging jobs get caught up with. So last night I climbed into a clean, serviced ...
Indicators broken… watch for finger.
July 17th, 2010I just wanted to send a quick hello to the guy in the black Yaris (sorry Cath but it was a Yaris) who decided to pop out in front of me from the left hand side of my bull-bar and ...
Constant velocity
July 15th, 2010If I had to count the number of cars I see in a day I'd run out of fingers really quickly. If I counted the number of cars I've passed in the last six months, having done more than 100,000 ...
Tied up all day.
July 8th, 2010Yesterday was a bit of a rest day. A rest from driving a least although I worked my back side off catching up with jobs at home. I finally fell into bed after another 24 hours awake and slept from ...
Take care, not risks.
June 25th, 2010Last night I was plodding up the New England Highway, heading to Brisbane when the call came over the two-way that there had been a fatal accident. I turned on the scanner to see what I could find out. Three dead ...
Literary surprised.
June 24th, 2010Early this week I was contacted by the National Library to see if I was happy for ‘Diary of a Truck Driver’ to be included in their archives. Initially I thought it was a spam but it turned out to ...
Communication is everything
May 25th, 2010For those of you that don't know about CB radios and the like, just about every truck on the road is using one. Gone are the days of the "ten four good buddy" lingo of the 70's and 80's and the ...
